Benefit to raise funds, awareness for suicide prevention

A year since a daughter took her own life

4:00 PM,
Apr. 22, 2012

Jeff Surenian is hosting a benefit dinner April 28 to raise money for suicide prevention in memory of his daughter, Lily Seegobin, pictured here in January 2011, who died by suicide last April. Photo courtesy Jeff Surenian.

Written by

Kristi Funderburk
| Staff Writer

Jeff Surenian has spent a year thinking of ways to help others avoid the tragedy that befell his borough home last April when his daughter committed suicide.

Things are finally starting to fall in place, he said.

This Saturday, April 28, Surenian is inviting the community to a dinner benefit to raise money for a new suicide-prevention foundation he is working to establish at Rutgers University-Newark, where his 19-year-old daughter, Lily Seegobin, was a freshman. ...